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The main branch of nginx 1.29.8 has been released, continuing the development of new features. Only changes related to fixing serious bugs and vulnerabilities are made in the concurrently supported stable branch 1.28.x. A stable branch 1.30 will be formed based on the main branch 1.29.x in the future. The project code is written in C and is distributed under the BSD license. In the new release: Added […]
A corrective release of Firefox 149.0.2 is available, which fixes 41 vulnerabilities. All vulnerabilities are caused by memory management issues, such as buffer overflows and access to already freed memory areas. Potentially, these issues can lead to a hacker executing code when specially crafted pages are opened. Non-security-related changes: Fixed a bug that caused the panel to become unresponsive […]
The release of uutils coreutils 0.8.0 (Rust Coreutils) has been published, which is developing an alternative to the GNU Coreutils package, written in Rust. Coreutils includes over a hundred utilities, such as sort, cat, chmod, chown, chroot, cp, date, dd, echo, hostname, id, ln, and ls. The project's goal is to create a cross-platform alternative implementation of Coreutils, among other capabilities, to work on Windows, Redox […]
The programming language Solod (So) has been introduced, offering a subset of the Go language, transcompiled into a representation in C (C11), suitable for compilation by GCC, Clang, and zig cc. The key distinction of Solod from Go and Tinygo is the use of manual memory management, operating without a garbage collector, automatic memory allocation, or reference counting. The transpiler for Solod is written in […]
A set of patches has been proposed for the Linux kernel, implementing the distributed replicated block device DRBD 9, allowing the creation of a RAID-1-like array formed from network-mirrored storage devices connected to different systems. The driver is intended to be initially tested in the linux-next branch and brought to readiness for integration into the Linux kernel 7.2. The old version of DRBD has been included in the kernel since […]
Red Hat has introduced a new extended paid support program called 'Extended Life Cycle, Premium', which will provide a 14-year support cycle for the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8/9/10 distribution branches: 5 years of complete public updates + 5 years of public updates addressing critical bugs and vulnerabilities (without introducing new features or extending hardware support) + 4 years of updates with […]
The Arch Linux developers have announced a switch to the nft backend for the iptables toolkit, which translates rules into nftables bytecode. The option to use the classic toolkit is preserved, but by default, the iptables-nft package is now enabled, providing utilities with the same command-line syntax. The iptables-nft package has been renamed to iptables, while the classic iptables package is now iptables-legacy. It is noted that the change […]
The release of the free PaaS platform Cozystack 1.2, built on Kubernetes, is now available. The project aims to provide a ready-made platform for hosting providers and a framework for building private and public clouds. The platform is installed directly on servers and covers all aspects of infrastructure preparation for providing managed services. Cozystack allows for the deployment and provision of Kubernetes clusters, databases, and virtual machines. The platform's code […]
Telegram users have discovered that the messenger has started displaying a warning on the profile of a contact who is using an unofficial client. The notification is accompanied by an explanation regarding potential reductions in message security. The service has not publicly announced the launch of this feature. At the same time, Telegram did not clarify whether the labeling applies to all third-party applications without exception or only to some of those clients. News of the impending change became known […]
The infamous 'tin foil hats' will no longer be needed for those concerned about health in a world saturated with radio waves. Wireless optical networks promise to alleviate Wi-Fi congestion in indoor spaces, including homes. This new technology will not replace cellular networks or regular Wi-Fi access points but may address speed shortages for various tasks and save on energy consumption. [ … ]
I don't know who will need this, but I was delighted. As an old VMS user, I couldn't pass this by. The company OpenVMS Software, which acquired the rights to OpenVMS and is now continuing the development of this OS for x86, has released a developer toolkit for VMS on Linux. It installs on Linux/X86-64 and Windows/WSL. VMS/XDE is a set of compilers and libraries, natively executed on Linux, [ … ]
Andreas Tille, the leader of the Debian project, published a monthly report explaining that he did not participate in the project leader elections for the third time to encourage other members to put forward their candidacies. As a result, this year there is only one candidate for the leadership position — Sruthi Chandran, a participant from India. Voting started yesterday and [ … ]